We've all collected or read coffee table books featuring beautiful classic cars. Here's one that takes a fresh approach. "Prestige, Status and Works of Art: Selling the Luxury Car...

Commercial artists normally begin their work with a few initial renderings. The above is Charles Maher's proposal for the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance poster. If you're an...

If this doesn't stir your romantic juices, gentlemen, nothing will! Imagine the fun of driving a 1959 Austin Healey Sprite and parking by a seaside lighthouse with a lovely British...

My ex- and I had booked a table for dinner at a nice though secluded restaurant close by the Thames in London's Chelsea district. We both liked james bond movies and Maggie was an enthusiastic fan...

Nothing pleases me more than promoting the works of automobile fine artists, especially when an artist has created something truly original. This is one of a new limited edition series by Paul Chenard...

Time was when automotive advertising images frequently placed an aircraft in the background, especially in the finned era of the 1950's. And why not? Both modes of transportation represented...

Well, this could get me back to using snail-mail! The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a second set of automobile stamps as part of its "America on the Move" series. The first set included...

I once had a brief career as a public relations person, first with VW/Porsche, then with Ford. To suggest that I wasn't cut out for the work would be an understatement, for to succeed in that...

Remember when the "service" in service station really meant something? Eager attendants fueled your tank, checked the oil, cleaned the windshield. Often the local station became a social...

Ex-wives and girlfriends may disagree but I think of myself as a romantic with a taste for transportation art. Obviously paintings that combine beautiful cars (or trains, ships, aircraft) with...

On the very morning that the New York Times digital edition offered, for sale from its archives, an historic photo of a 1920's motor race, I spotted the above artwork on The GarageBlog. Both...

Some of the most intriguing examples of automotive art can be found on program covers that advertise concours, motor races, and similar events. Too often these are tossed after the affair is over but...

You may be aware, if you've followed my efforts over the years for Creative Weblogging and About.com, that design and architecture are among my interests and that I'm supportive of automotive...

As an admirer of Oriental culture and classic bicycles, I take great pleasure in offering my viewers this typical Shanghai street scene. Well, perhaps not so typical. In fact, it was a work in...

You won't find any calendars hanging in my little condo. It's not that I don't like them, especially when the photos consist of classic cars, planes, trains, etc. In fact I've kept a...

So who is that lady, lying on her back, bosom slightly revealed, with cameras clicking from every direction? She's Sophia Loren, she's 71, and she's still sexy. Luck, genes, and a...

With this artwork I'd like to honor a friend and former colleague whom I consider to be one of the most talented illustrators and art directors I've had the privilege of knowing in 30 years as...

Our regular visitors will, I hope, notice that this site has an all-new masthead, one that symbolises both Classical Drive's editorial theme and our personal taste in automobile styling. The new...

If only I had more walls to hang them on, I'd be a serious collector of automobile art. No, make that transportation art, as I'm also a fan of trains, planes, ships and boats. (Yes, one of...